Table of contents

Philosophy

• What is Free Software?
• What is GNU?
• What is the Free Software Foundation?
• Why Free Software is Important
• Why Software Should Not Have Owners
• What is the difference between Open Source and Free Software?
• Why Free Software is better than Open Source
• History
• What happens, When you've got proprietary - example based on printers
• What is DRM?
• Why business should avoid proprietary software
• Why Public Education Must Use Free Software
• Critisim of free software

Libre Software

• Operating Systems
  • GNU/Linux
    • BSD
    • Minix
    • Others
      • RISC OS
      • Redox
      • XNU
      • PureDarwin
• Compilers
  • C
    • GCC

Libre Hardware

• Certified hardware by FSF RYF
• FSF-RYF compliant
  • FSF-RYF compliant - These products, are entriely meet the FSF criteria but are not certified.
    • Arduino
    • RTL-SDR
  • With minor flaws - These products are usable with libre software but a few non-critical features may require non-libre software. For most uses, it is easy to workaround the proprietary components.
  • With serious flaws - The core functionality of these boards is usable with only libre software, but important features are missing. While these flaws have workarounds, these workarounds are often complex. In particular, these products have unsigned, libre boot firmware, but they lack libre software for accelerated graphics.
  • With Fatal flaws - Products in these categories either require non-libre software to even boot or enforce signature checks on their bootloader to prevent replacement with libre software.

lifestyle

• Introduction
• Vendor lock-in
  • Instant messengers
    • XMPP
  • Finance
    • Gold
    • Barter
  • Language
    • Lojban

Advocacy

• Introduction
  • Activism Guide
  • Convert friends